A New Way To Measure Your Costs in the Cloud
Here’s how the IT bypass works. Someone in the developer group needs a cluster of servers to do some testing. IT says it will be months before the request can even be considered. The…
HP’s Dwight Barron Discusses Moonshot Efficiency at theCube
Dwight Barron, the Chief Technologist of HP’s Hyperscale unit talked Project Moonshot during an interview at theCube with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Moonshot is a new power-efficient breed of mini servers that accommodate hundreds…
DevilRobber Virus Usurps Mac Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins
By Kyt Dotson
A new Mac OS Trojan has been caught in the wild and this time, instead of just stealing sensitive information from infected computers, it also surreptitiously steals processing power from the computer in order…
Duqu Exploits Microsoft Word, Security Community Responds
Microsoft is rushing towards a security update release after it was disclosed that the Duqu infection exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in its Microsoft Word office application. Security experts have been hailing Duqu as…
Facebook Co-Founder’s GTD Style Startup Now Open for Free Sign-Ups
By Klint Finley
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s startup Asana has been one of the most anticipated startups of the past few years. And now you can finally sign-up for a free account. Asana was founded by Moskovitz…
Update – Flipboard: Look for HTML5 and Web Version Next Year
Yesterday I wrote about Flipboard hiring well-known Web developer Filip Fortes and the expectation that the company will build an HTML5 app and a Web version. Prior to writing the post, I received a…
HP Working Toward a Net Zero Green Data Center Design, Relying on Multiple Power Sources
The Moonshot program is one step toward a much larger vision, Chandrakant Patel, HP Senior Fellow, Director, HP Sustainable Technology Research told SiliconAngle Founder and CEO John Furrier and Wikibon.org Co-Founder and Chief Analyst…
Permabit Appoints New Head of Engineering
Big data-optimized storage solutions maker Permabit announced it has promoted Michael Fortson, who previously served as the company’s Director of Engineering and Chief Architect, to the position of VP of Engineering. Fortson has been…
Angry Birds Flies Past 500M Downloads, Drives Gaming Innovation
By Maria Pila
Mobile gaming firm Rovio said on Wednesday that its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch. Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry Birds…
Redstone Only the Start Down the Road to a New Basic Architecture for Data-Centric Computing, Says HP’s Partha Ranganathan
The basis for HP’s November 1 Moonshot announcement, and in particular the Redstone low-energy server, was the realization at HP Labs more than five years ago that the real issue in server design is…